One of the new features in Chrome 56 is the ability to scale documents before printing. This change is really useful when you need to print a page which has shrunken text and images. Let's see how it is implemented in Chrome 56.
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Category: Google Chrome
Google to kill Chrome’s plugin management option
As you may already know, the Chrome browser allows you to enable or disable installed plug-ins like Adobe Flash, the PDF plugin and Widevine, the DRM content decryption plugin. However, with Chrome 57, this option will no longer be available.
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Make Google Chrome Ask Before Quitting (Exit Confirmation)
Today, we will see how to make Google Chrome ask before quitting. The default behavior of this browser may be a bit annoying for the user, since it can be closed accidentally. Let's change this and make it show a warning before you close it.
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Change Download Folder in Google Chrome
In Google Chrome, you can change the download folder even though it does not ask you each time where to save a file. By default, the browser is using the Downloads folder in your user profile, which is also visible in the navigation pane of File Explorer and in the This PC folder. Here is how you can change it.
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Automatically Make Background Tab Active in Google Chrome
You can make a background tab active in Google Chrome automatically. It will be opened immediately instead of in the background. Here is how you can do it.
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Export Saved Google Chrome Passwords to a File
By default, Google Chrome doesn't allow you to export saved passwords to a file. The browser can save them, and they will be available in the current profile or synced across your devices if you have enabled it. But there is also a way to export saved passwords to a file.
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Run Google Chrome with different profiles
Google Chrome is the most popular web browser which exists for all major platforms like Windows, Android and Linux. It comes with a powerful rendering engine which supports all modern web standards. You might want to setup a few profiles to separate your browsing tasks. In this article, we'll see how to run Google Chrome with different profiles.
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Fix: Chrome does not play important video content
Today, I faced a strange issue with Google Chrome. During my English class, the browser decided to not play a video from BBC's "Learning English" page. This happened in 64-bit Windows 7 running 32-bit Google Chrome. Here is how I was able to solve the issue.
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Chrome becomes faster on Windows with Profile Guided Optimization
Google Chrome on Windows was criticized many times for its enormous RAM usage and crashes when there were a lot tabs open. Moreover Google never admitted the problem and continued to improve other aspects of the browser not taking into account the performance, and making only small changes and optimizations that weren't enough. However, with the recent releases of Chrome 53 for 64-bit Windows systems and Chrome 54 for 32-bit Windows, Google claims to have finally improved its performance significantly.
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Make screenshot of web page with device frame in Chrome
A lesser known feature of Google Chrome on Desktop operating systems is the ability to capture a screenshot of an opened page as if the screenshot taken was of the browser running on a mobile device. It can even add a frame around the screenshot so it looks like a realistic photo of a smartphone. Here is how it can be done.
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